Life Absurd Poems

Once upon a time, in a land of make-believe,
there lived a magical calendar if you choose to believe.
It hung on the wall, sparkling with a...

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fRaGmEnTs
landed HERE
  in time for
the twilight of
  life

…where
percussive villains
perform on
a global stage
as glowing slime
slithers
through one
  mendacious midpoint
  at a time &
earth's...

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We live within a lifeless metropolis,
Where corporations prance in the stream of time,
Their gaping mouths reciting shallow verse,
While Freedom’s statue weeps in lonely midnight.

Gargantuan flags...

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In the vast expanse of existence,
Your world, I find, fails to captivate my senses.
Unfortunate days, like wayward wanderers,
Don the garments of absurdity,
Parading their disconcerting presence.

Each...

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In the expanse of purposeless existence,
We drift, untethered, searching for guidance.
Hope, a distant memory, elusive, unattainable,
No laughter escapes our lips on this path.

Days and nights...

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In the dawn’s hazy light, I see them,
The weary souls trudging forth,
Faces etched with half-slept weariness,
Their spirits longing for escape.

In this bustling cityscape,
They gather at...

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Sometimes I pray for my death as much I want to live, but it will not come ... 
I long for my childhood but it...

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Sea of such violent ideas,
why did you create the storms
and the winds... why are you shipwrecked
 my time to navigate you...?
Why did you rip me...

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To live life  offer my word
      to fight war carry my sword
      less would...

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Life of Absurd Politician

could be too confused
absurd and always abused
mishandled and misused

Jim Horn

Does that sound fair?...

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Limericks VII - Naughty, Bawdy, Risque, Absurd

There continue to be modern sequels of the famous "Nantucket" limericks, including this bawdy one of mine:

There was a...

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A Vain Word
by Michael R. Burch

Oleanders at dawn preen extravagant whorls
as I read in leaves’ Sanskrit brief moments remaining
till sunset implodes, till the moon strands...

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How Absurd it Seemed


Ah, those memories, so well refined, reworked, revised to meet the failings of memory – or the shame of remembrance.  Tinged...

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Stand back, take a breath, smile at the world
Nuttin you can do, just duck at what's hurled
Mosey along unaffected
Expect the unexpected
Pretend they're not happening, these...

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(A poetic representation of this world unfolding before a child as he grows up to adolescence) 

He stood on a hill,
And saw a picture,
A silent...

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